Walter Schulz (cellist)

Walter August Wilhelm Schulz (born September 27, 1893 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † January 21, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German cellist , gambist and university professor . From 1945 to 1948 he was director of the State University for Music Weimar .

Life

Schulz was born in Frankfurt / Oder in 1893. After attending a Berlin secondary school, he privately studied the cello from 1912 to 1916 with Hugo Dechert in Berlin. From 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the Blüthner Orchestra . In 1918 he became a cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1920 he received a position as 2nd solo cellist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1926 he became concert master and first solo cellist as the successor to Eduard Rosé at the National Theater Orchestra Weimar , where he worked until 1936. From 1933 he was a teacher for cello and chamber music at the state music school there. In 1934 he received an extraordinary and in 1947 a full professorship at the State University of Music Weimar. From July 1945 to March 1948 he was acting director and first post-war director of the facility. During his tenure in office, two-year plans were valid that were to oblige the music college to Marxism-Leninism .

In 1951 he became a professor at the Leipzig University of Music .

From 1926 he appeared as a soloist and chamber musician. In terms of chamber music, he played in the Reitz and Bosse Quartet and in the Dahlke and Weimar Trio. He also appeared as a gambist. Schulz was including the suites for solo cello by Max Reger out. In 1941 he published fingering studies for advanced cellists .

From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the lodge in Jena . During the time of National Socialism he lived a secluded life. Although he was considered politically German national, he stayed away from the NSDAP . After the Second World War he became a member of the KPD .

Schulz, Protestant, was married and the father of the singer Hans-Herbert Schulz (1927-2006), who performed under the name of Hanns Petersen .

Fonts (selection)

• Violoncell School (= Hofmeister Schools . No. 41). Hofmeister, Leipzig 1951 (reprints 1954 and 1960).

literature

• Gerassimos Avgerinos: artist biographies: the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 1882–1972 . Self-published, Berlin 1972, p. 148.
• Margot Backhaus: Schulz, Walter . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ, DDR . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 826.
• Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , pp. 311ff.
• Erich H. Müller (ed.): German Musicians Lexicon . W. Limpert-Verlag, Dresden 1929.
• Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . 2nd ed., Kopf, Kiel 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-037705-1 , p. 6833.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . Volume 9: Schlumberger - Thiersch . 2nd revised and expanded edition, KG Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , pp. 285f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , p. 205.
2. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , p. 569.
3. ^ Annette Seemann: Weimar. A cultural story . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63030-9 , p. 351.
4. ^ Jürgen Stegmüller: The string quartet. An international documentation on the history of string quartet ensembles and string quartet compositions from the beginning to the present (= source catalogs for music history . Volume 40). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0780-8 , p. 202.
5. ↑ Wolfram Huschke: Future Music: A History of the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-30905-2 , pp. 313f.